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Quality of Life in Nursing Homes

Involving Elders in Policy Making for Their Own Care and Life Satisfaction

Kathryn McKinley MSW Social Work Department, Buena Vista University, 610 West 4th Street, Storm Lake, IA, 50588, USA
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Geri Adler MSW, PhD College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA
Pages 37-51 | Published online: 14 Oct 2008

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Kathy Murphy, Adeline Cooney & Dympna Casey. (2014) Improving the quality of life for older people in long-term care settings. Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research 3:3, pages 301-315.
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Gørill Haugan. (2014) Meaning-in-life in nursing-home patients: a correlate with physical and emotional symptoms. Journal of Clinical Nursing 23:7-8, pages 1030-1043.
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Siobhan Aine Bradshaw, E. Diane Playford & Afsane Riazi. (2012) Living well in care homes: a systematic review of qualitative studies. Age and Ageing 41:4, pages 429-440.
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Eliza Lai Yi Wong, Jasmine Kwok Man Lam, Sian Griffiths, Vincent Chung & Eng Kiong Yeoh. (2010) Chinese medicine: its role and application in the institutionalised older people. Journal of Clinical Nursing 19:7-8, pages 1084-1093.
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